Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY 2002

这一行动为NSF 2002财年微生物生物学博士后奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金支持关于原生动物、微藻、真菌、古生物、细菌和病毒物种的基本生物学的培训和研究，这些物种通常不被认为是模式生物。此外，它还为最近的博士获得者提供了获得微生物生物学方面的额外培训的机会，在知名科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并在本科生和研究生培训期间拓宽其科学视野，超越研究经验。这些奖学金还旨在帮助新科学家引导他们的研究工作跨越传统的学科界限，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括外国地点。这项研究和培训计划的标题是“玉米(Zea Mays)上的真菌群落对黑穗病(Ustilago Maydis)具有抗性和敏感性。”选择性繁殖和改变宿主遗传环境对非靶标、潜在有益微生物的影响往往被忽视。本研究通过研究玉米植株上的真菌微生物群落来研究这些影响，这些微生物群落对玉米植株的主要病原体黑穗病具有抗性或敏感性。这将对了解改变寄主植物遗传环境如何影响非目标微生物的物种多样性和遗传结构具有重要意义。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology for FY2002. The fellowship supports training and research on the basic biology of protozoan, microalgal, fungal, archaeal, bacterial and viral species that are not generally considered to be model organisms. Further, it provides opportunities for a recent doctoral recipients to obtain additional training in microbial biology, to gain research experience under the sponsorship of established scientists, and to broaden his/her scientific horizons beyond the research experiences during the undergraduate and graduate training. These fellowships are further designed to assist new scientists to direct their research efforts across traditional disciplinary lines and to avail themselves of unique research resources, sites, and facilities, including foreign locations. The research and training plan is entitled "The fungal community on corn (Zea mays) resistant and susceptible to smut (Ustilago maydis)." The effects of selective breeding and changing host genetic environment on non-target, potentially beneficial microorganisms are often overlooked. This research investigates these effects by studying the fungal microbial community on corn plants resistant or susceptible to one its major pathogens, smut. It will have important implications for understanding how altering the host plant genetic environment can affect species diversity and genetic structure of non-target microorganisms.